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Luckily, they are not making the newly launched MSN Messenger 7 a paid service as they did with MSN Chat rooms sometime ago. It is still free to download and most of the facilities are still free for usage. However, the company would be now more aggressively in selling advertisement space on this messaging application. Companies like Adidas and Volvo have already joined the rat race to become one of the major advertisers on the Instant Messaging application windows.
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Mark Mulligan, senior broadband analyst at Jupiter, commented: "Chat rooms are not a revenue-making service and are a drain on providers' revenues. But in Europe consumers are not yet ready to pay for these types of services."
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MSN Chat can be accessed through chat.msn.com. This is now a subscription service that costs $19.95 a year and includes 40MB of online storage and virus protection. MSN states that this subscription plan is used to prevent spam and unwanted advertisements.
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The closure of MSN chat rooms on the MSN UK site is one of a number of ongoing initiatives to prioritise the safety of children using the service. MSN’s dedicated child safety site http://www.msn.co.uk/staysafe is an excellent education tool for parents in helping them to ensure they protect their children online. MSN and its dedicated child protection officer has, and will continue to work closely with the Home Office Task Force on Child Safety, the Police, children’s charities and industry watchdogs on the best long term solutions to stamp out the industry wide issue of child abuse online.
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The chat servers belong to MSN and they can do with them what they want. If they feel charging is the way to go, that's up to them. Are they kicking themselves in the butt, certainly. So, instead of closing down their chat rooms, they charge for them. When they don't at least break even, it's an excuse to shut them down permenantly. It's the way most free internet services go.
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If AOL drops their chat rooms they're going to find themselves in a big empty place. MSN may soon discover the same thing. If they remove the unique features that their service provides people will abandon the large ISPs for local services or cheaper ones like NetZero.
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